Table 1. Detected of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma platys in ticks by species, district and gender, Selenge province, Mongolia, 2013.

Tick species	District	Tick gender	No. of samples	Positive for Anaplasma phagocytophilum (%)	Positive for Anaplasma platys (%)
Dermacentor nuttalli (n = 20)	Altanbulag	Female	6	1 (16.7)	–
		Male	4	1 (25.0)	–
	Khuder	Female	6	1 (16.7)	2 (33.3)
		Male	4	1 (25.0)	–
	Subtotal	Female	12	2 (16.7)	2 (16.7)
		Male	8	2 (25.0)	–
		All	20	4 (20.0)	2 (10.0)
Ixodes persulcatus (n = 222)	Altanbulag	Female	23	3 (13.0)	1 (4.4)
		Male	26	2 (7.7)	1 (3.8)
	Khuder	Female	88	5 (5.7)	2 (2.3)
		Male	77	4 (5.2)	–
	Unknown		8	–	–
	Subtotal	Female	111	8 (7.2)	3 (2.7)
		Male	103	6 (5.8)	1 (1.0)
		All	222	14 (6.3)	4 (1.8)
Total			242	18 (7.4)	6 (2.5)